Personal Trainer in Christchurch
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If you are looking to lose weight, you have tried every diet and still haven't managed to keep off the weight like you'd hoped, you may decide you would be best to work with a Personal Trainer in Christchurch.
Best Way to Lose Weight is to Build Muscle
Are you looking for the best way to lose weight? Have you tried time and time again to lose weight but either ended up gaining it all back again, or giving up before you’d really begun because it was too hard to follow?
Have you ever wondered why ‘diets’ are often unsuccessful?
Did you know that you are able to put your body into a state where it burns predominantly fat for fuel?
Well it's true, and it can be done with the help of a Personal Trainer in Christchurch
Muscle is a very active tissue, so burns fat even while resting. You need to have a certain amount of muscle in order to burn fat efficiently. Every pound of muscle you have will burn 50 extra calories per day.
That is per pound, even while resting! Isn't that cool?!
All you have to do to burn fat faster is build muscle tissue with the help of a Christchurch personal trainer. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn fat), the faster your metabolism.
The term ‘going on a diet’ however implies a temporary measure to lose weight.
The truth of the matter is: In order to sustain long term, healthy weight loss you need to adopt new habits and keep them for a lifetime. We simply cannot eat whatever we want, whenever we want to and expect to get away with it. We can eat takeaways occasionally, just not all the time. Even people with high metabolisms pay for it in other ways eventually.
But when people talk about getting fitter, leaner and healthier, they always talk about ‘going on a diet’ or ‘losing weight.’ Many and varied are the “I lost 5kgs in 3 days!” stories that catch everyone’s eye. What they don’t know or fail to tell you is most of that weight loss is water that will be replaced as soon as a normal diet resumes.
There is no ‘chemical breakdown’ or ‘secret formula’ in the best way to lose weight either.
These ‘lose weight fast’ diets you hear about work by massively restricting calorie intake, which in the short term work very well in the ‘weight loss’ scheme of things.
But when faced with an intensive calorie restriction like this, your brain immediately thinks you are starving and sends your body directly into famine mode. This is in place from when our ancestors endured hard times. Your metabolism slows and your body does its utmost to preserve precious fat stores.
Everything goes into damage control, your cardiovascular system, nervous system, gastrointestinal system all slow to save precious fuel. Your body starts to use up fat burning muscle tissue for fuel instead of life-saving fat, which slows your metabolism even further. Furthermore, lean muscle is nowhere near as efficient an energy source as fat, so your body needs more of it for the same amount of energy.
Fat burning muscle tissue is lost and will take some time for you to replace it.
You are doing everything to plan on your ‘diet’ but fat loss has become near impossible with a decreased metabolism due to depleted muscle stores. You may have experienced the 'plateau,' where your weight loss simply stops and will not budge a gram further. The excitement of the initial weight loss is no longer outweighing the hunger pangs, cravings, feelings of anxiety and lethargy.
There is nothing else to do but drop your calorie intake even more.
So your metabolism slows even more. You are caught in a vicious, damaging war with your body that you cannot win. Your brain will do anything to prevent you from starving to death. Your body will never let you lose enough fat to make it worth the pain.
Your body is now absolutely desperate for instant energy so the desire for chocolate, ice-cream and chips is through the roof.
If it were as simple as the weight going straight back on when you go ‘off’ this diet, this story wouldn’t be so bad.
The problem is it is highly likely that only half of the amount of weight you lost is fat, which means the other half is lean muscle tissue.
Suddenly, the cravings kick in (another cave man response for when the body needs something, such as instant energy), so you eat even more than you were before.
The problem is your metabolism has slowed meaning the amount of food you used to need to maintain your weight now causes you to gain weight. With less lean muscle tissue to burn calories at a resting rate, you end up gaining back even more weight than you lost in the first place.
Starting to sound familiar?
Pretty soon you are back to the weight you started at, and possibly even more. You have damaged your metabolism and it will now be even harder to lose weight than ever before. Your confidence in your ability to lose weight is knocked for a six and you are less likely to try anything lest you fail once again.
So quite obviously, restricting calories and going hungry is the worst possible thing you can do.
The way to burn fat is to replace it with shapely muscle.
Part of the strategy to replace fat with muscle is to EAT
By simply elevating your muscle to fat ratio raises your metabolism, as muscle burns fat stores even while resting. Muscle is heavier than fat however and it is easy to get put off in the weeks where muscle replaces fat and no weight is lost. In some of the 12 weeks that I was on this eating plan, I barely even lost 10 grams. I gave up weighing myself after the first month because the results were so discouraging.
Spare your sanity and instead of watching the scales – set being lean and healthy and losing inches as your goal.
Choose a Personal Trainer in Christchurch and achieve your weight loss goals.
